{"id":10421,"date":"2014-03-18T00:28:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2014\/mar\/18\/amazon-web-services-turns-eight-highlightsand-future\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T00:28:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:28:22","slug":"amazon-web-services-turns-eight-highlights-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/amazon-web-services-turns-eight-highlights-and-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Web Services turns eight: Highlights&#8230;and the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the World Wide Web turning 25, a company in Seattle was having a little celebration of its own.<\/p>\n<p>On March 14 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of Amazon S3, described as &ldquo;a simple storage service that offers software developers a highly scalable, reliable, and low-latency data storage infrastructure at very low costs.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>To say the eight years which have passed since then have been a success is an understatement to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>With over 5,000 consulting and systems integrator partners, 3,000 technology and ISV partners, as well as more than 1,100 software listings for customers, it&rsquo;s difficult to argue against Amazon as the market leader in infrastructure as a service.<\/p>\n<p>In April last year Amazon announced the S3 cloud was storing more than two trillion objects &ndash; or 20 objects for every single person ever born on Earth. To put it into &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the World Wide Web turning 25, a company in Seattle was having a little celebration of its own.<br \/>\nOn March 14 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch of Amazon S3, described as &ldquo;a simple storage service that offers software deve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}